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Cowboys veteran players barred from Valley Ranch…again

The NFL’s labor situation seems to be changing from one minute to the next. Not long after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he expected players to be reporting to work for the second consecutive day on Saturday, the team announced it was shutting down its facility again.

The news came hours a three-judge panel on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the NFL’s request for a temporary stay on the enforcement of a ruling from a lower court that ended the lockout. The league now has the ability to re-institute the lockout conditions. Yet Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said later in the evening his players are still welcome to work out, use the weight room and visit with coaches and trainers at Valley Ranch during this temporary stay.

“Relative to what we are able to do today, as we sit here over the next few days we’ll do the same thing,” Jones said at 8:55 p.m. “We have decided in the next few days players can come out here…and do the same things they did today.”

At about 9:17 p.m., the Cowboys announced that the veteran players would be forbidden from returning to the team’s complex.